Many educated young people are always
out there on the streets looking for job when all the while are passing by many
jobs that can change their lives if they take cognizant of them. And that’s
where the problem is. How can they take cognizant of something when they have
not been orientated on the nature of job?
As a social educator, I always believe
that there is an avalanche of job opportunities out there in our societies much
more than we can all do, inasmuch as society – people – is still alive. The
reason why many graduates are job is because they do not understand the meaning
of a job and how society provides jobs.
WHAT
IS A JOB
Society as a living organism has many
parts (interests and concerns) which happen to be the interests, the needs, the
wants, and the desires of all the people that are collectively called society.
Parts or sectors of any society include:
·
Sports
·
Cooking
and baking
·
Fashion
·
Security
·
Energy
·
Finance
and commence
·
Environment
·
Science
and technology
·
Infrastructure
and construction
·
Health
·
Spirituality
·
Governance
and community
·
Humanity
and social science
·
Business
and economy
·
Entertainment
(art and culture)
·
Communication
·
Agriculture
·
Transportation
·
Education.
Therefore, what is called a job or
occupation is what people do for which they receive payment in cash. It is an
activity performed for payment. Job is a narrow name used to describe problems
you solve in your society. In radical sense, job is an art of solving problems.
(For instance, I prefer to ask people, 'What problem do you solve in your
society?' than to ask, 'What do you do? or 'What is your job?' This is my
personal way of creating the mindset of having problems to solve in people's
minds).
Every job responsibility requires
special training on how to apply the available knowledge (information) to do
this or that job – (the job that the information related to). It is important
to know that there is no simple job – all jobs have their individual
professionalism (higher information or knowledge) that one will have to be
trained to acquire and understand before they can be referred to as a
professional or expert or specialist in solving that particular problem.
When you reach that level of professionalism
in whatever problem you solve, honour and respect and money will follow you.
(Think of Timberland: shoemaking; think of Tatalizer: cooking and baking; think
of Dangote: agriculture; think of any sportsman or woman: sports; think of Ben
Cason: health; think of Woke Soyinka: education, etc.). It is not what you do that makes you important, it is your level of
knowledge about it and how you do it that counts.
All people's problems are mainly
classified into any of these sectors. These problems are sources of jobs for
people, for us – you, me and others.
Think of any problem in the world and
think of any profession and their duties, they won’t fall anywhere outside those
sectors.
(People need the services of all the
sectors in one way or the other in their daily lives, and that need creates
jobs for each and every one of us. Our main duty, as parts of our society,
therefore, is to select one or two of those sectors where we will like to help
our society solve one or two problems – and that’s why we go to school – to master
how best to solve those problems). Read this post WHY MUST I GO TO SCHOOL?
However, there are three levels of job
in each sector which also classify people in the same sector into different
levels of problem solving.
By Akerele Segun Helen
Read the next post WHAT ARE THE THREE LEVELS OF JOB? This post is one of our posts in the UNDERSTANDING THE REASONS FOR GRADUATES’ JOBLESSNESS AND HOW YOU CAN ESCAPE IT Series. You should also read the introductory post THE POWER OF QUESTIONING AND DOUBTING and also WHY MUST I GO TO SCHOOL? Along with UNDERSTANDING THE MEANING OF EDUCATION. Go back home.
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